Institute of Astronomy Seminars take place each Wednesday in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceeded by a bread and cheese lunch in the Hoyle Foyer at 12:30. IoA Colloquia take place each Thursday during Full Term in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceded by tea at 15:30 and followed by a wine reception in the Hoyle Foyer. Joint Colloquia with the Cavendish Astrophysics group are on a Tuesday or Thursday.

Talks Archive

The Institute keeps an archive of previous talks at the IoA.

Additional Talks Information

Upcoming Institute of Astronomy Talks

Tuesday 26 October 2021

Nathan Mayne (University of Exeter)

(Exo)planetary Atmospheres in 3D

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Wednesday 27 October 2021

Joris Witstok

Spectroscopic studies of star-forming galaxies in the Epoch of Reionisation

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:15-13:45
Venue: Hybrid Sackler (sign-up needed) + Zoom - Details will be sent by email.  [details]

Francesco D'Eugenio

Life after death: evidence of dry minor-merger driven growth of massive quiescent galaxies

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:45-14:15
Venue: Hybrid Sackler (sign-up needed) + Zoom - Details will be sent by email.  [details]

Friday 29 October 2021

Anne Hutter (Groningen)

The nature of the first galaxies and reionisation: challenges in the era of SKA, Roman and JWST

Series: Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: via zoom  [details]

Tuesday 02 November 2021

Lily Zhao (Flatiron Institute, NY)

The EXPRES Stellar Signals Project (ESSP): Establishing the State of the Field in Disentangling Photospheric Velocities

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Wednesday 03 November 2021

Payton Rodman (University of Cambridge)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:15-13:45
Venue: Hybrid Sackler (sign-up needed) + Zoom - Details will be sent by email.  [details]

Vanessa López-Barquero

Title to be confirmed

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:45-14:15
Venue: Hybrid Sackler (sign-up needed) + Zoom - Details will be sent by email.  [details]

Thursday 04 November 2021

Ricardo Schiavon (Liverpool)

The inner inner halo of the Milky Way according to APOGEE and Gaia

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email  [details]

Friday 05 November 2021

Adam Dillamore (IoA)

Merger-induced galaxy transformations

Series: Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: via zoom  [details]

Tuesday 09 November 2021

Amy Steele (MSI Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill Space Institute)

TBA

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Upcoming External Talks

Wednesday 27 October 2021

Phiala Shanahan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TBC

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Friday 29 October 2021

Maria Okounkova (Flatiron Institute)

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: Zoom  [details]

Monday 01 November 2021

Elisa Chisari (Utrecht)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Dr. Jim Fuller - Caltech

Surprising impacts of gravity waves

Series: DAMTP Astro Mondays
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Online  [details]

Wednesday 03 November 2021

Sabrina Pasterski, Princeton University

TBC

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Friday 05 November 2021

Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP)

Quasi-local mass of the Kerr black hole horizon

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Potter room/Zoom  [details]

Monday 08 November 2021

Gizem Şengör (CEICO)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Dr Lorenzo Matteini

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Astro Mondays
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: Online  [details]

Wednesday 10 November 2021

Tom Daggitt

Electron Transport, Acceleration and Loss in the Outer Radiation Belt

Series: DAMTP Astro Mondays
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Online  [details]

Neil Turok, nturok@ed.ac.uk

TBC

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]